I was struggling and had hit rock bottom with my golf game. I google searched “how to build my golf swing from scratch” because I was ready to just start over! I found this video and it solved most of my problems (with my irons anyway) Enjoying golf again! Thank you!
Jonathan, you are hereby awarded an honorary PHD in GSS (Golf Swing Science) for your excellent work in deciphering and presenting how to make the golf swing work for everyone.
He is the best teacher for golf , I think , after my golf expierience of 40years ! I always attempt his teachings of golf swing ,which my swing seems to have had a great improvement. Thanks a lot.
Fantastic instruction Jonathan! One of the best I've seen. But what I liked the most was the person in the background doing 360's when swinging through, from about 13:20 in the video :) Perhaps they should have been watching you instead!
Best golf swing video period! I’ve seen 100 ‘s of golf videos here on RUclips, would give my left nu? for a great golf swing, this is the best explanation I’ve ever heard on how to properly swing a golf club. Thank you Jonathan.
jonathan, this is the simplist and best golf video i've ever seen and i have seen hundreds and read tons of books. this will really help me. thnx steve
Who the hell is this dude. I just found him this week. My current schedule doea not permit me to practice everyday like i normally do. So I decided to just work on things with a club when I get home late at night for 6 days. Low and behold I get to the course today. Hit a bucket and athough alot of shots went left, which for me is good. I got on the courae and just stuck with some key movements. The front nine was horrendous. But lile he said, you're goa hit some bad shots. But then I made the turn and didn't abondon thinking in the pratice swinf and then trying to not think in the swing. 1 under thru 15. Yeah. I think I am sticking with Taylor. I love the way he reiterates basics in every episode. So simplistic yet advanced. Where have u been all my life! Thanks i had fun today and u restored that.
A very good instructional video. I understand the swing better now and will be referencing back. By the way I am 65 years and 9 months started golf 4 and 1/2 years ago and having swing difficulty.
Johnathan, You are the "King of Swing" Thorough integrated and complete, which your videos are, totally beats the unconnected swing snippets scattered all over RUclips, that barely differentiate between deliberate active movements and resulting passive movements. In understanding the sequence and timing your videos are tops. I would still appreciate, however a timeline of all the individual active efforts showing their relative starts and finishes. Any resulting movements could also be separately aligned too. Thanks, Schaun
Your wrists, hands and arms have to be active to start the swing and get the club in the air and on plane, as do your legs, hips and shoulders to turn your body. Before the top of the backswing, all of the above have to become passive, using the weight and inertia of the club to lift the arms, complete the turn and with help of gravity start the downswing. As the club starts down there must be an active relaxing of the body encouraging the knees to bend and the turn back to the bodies starting position and beyond. Legs, arms and shoulders become active again when the club reaches P6 accelerating the arms, hands and club through the ball and up around the body. I would say that your arms hands and wrists are also active at this point but there is definitely no conscious guidance. From P 8 everything is passive.
Update!!! Just got back from playing today used all this advice and was flushing it like never before .....people watch this vid over and over . Nuff said !
Excellent! When following the 3 easy steps, it's easy to identify my mistakes of swing and learn how to rectify them. However, the key is rhythm and timing to make my solid strike.
Johnathan, thanks for these great videos..have you any tips (drills) for getting the feeling of 'maximum speed after the ball'..(Pardon me if you've covered this and I haven't discovered it yet)?
Thank you for your explanation on the swing. Basic but crucial to a quality swing without moving our hips toward the target. Will try this when the snow goes away in the near future.
Jonathan, first of all, I’ve watched a lot your videos and read your pdf. Academically it’s perfect. What I’m missing is a few drills especially around the key part of the move, ie the return to centre, flattening of the swing, turning of the shoulders, etc. I would gladly pay for a lesson showing me how to do this. On my own, I fear I’m still missing something.
Very good explanation by JT. I have read your Swing Simply Philosophy and combined with this tutorial and others then it become perfect!!! I have now getting the swing that I need years ago. Many2 thanks JT for helping golfers by showing the consistent way of golf swing. Cheers
Thanks Jonathan! This works amazingly well! I have hit my most powerful and accurate shots using this method. The key for me it to keep my arms soft and tension free.
This is another great video, so precisely decribing the crucial parts of the golf swing and also trying to convey the feeling one should have. A suggestion for an exercise that I think would be very appreciated by many, including myself: I’ve been stuggeling for quite a long time with over-rotating in the backswing, and I see loads of other golfers doing the same. Instead of stopping the backswing at the correct position, I continue to rotate and while doing that, I lift the left shoulder and head so that the shoulders have a more horizontal position and the spine angle is thus more upright. The club shaft has well passed the horizontal position, pointing downwards. No surprise I struggle to find the way back for the club head into the ball! For some strange reason (muscle memory or something), when I try to reduce the backswing, I loose rythm and timing completely and get all types of mishits including shanks. The brain works its way back to the full (ugly and overrotated) swing continuously! I have spent weeks on the range including recording video of myself for instant feedback, but almost no improvement at all. Any exercise for successful reduction of the backswing would be mostly welcome!!
Hi Jonathan, I am a bit confused on the synchronisation of hip and arm/hand position. In other words, when the hands have descended to the right thigh area, should the hips turn be maxed out and the legs/arms/hands explode through the ball by extending (as demonstrated in the driver swing video) or should there be more conscious hip rotation at that point. Or maybe the extension of the legs automatically produced more hip turn through the ball?
@@JonathanTaylor63 Thanks, my question is, how to find the same shafts plane on the downswing, also when you Pharrell to ground how to find it. that concept is very hard to understand Sir.
Very good re. the UPPER body . However , i kept waiting for what i consider the MOST important part of the golf swing ; the Legs . I would think that teaching how to get the club properly to the top is enough arm instruction . Then a " How To " on getting the legs involved . So this video should have the word " UPPER " between the words " your " and " golf " in the title . In my opinion this video is 1/2 of the golf swing . Jonathan , if you can teach students on how to initiate the downswing "WITH THE LEGS" , you'll be world famous . A novice watching this , is going to think upper body only . That said ; your efforts is this video are greatly appreciated . And that is sincere . The game is difficult and so is the proper wording in teaching the downswing . Other than that , there is nothing to this game !
You say you do not lift your left arm but if you look at your swing (and all good golfers) you will see that your upper left arm moves 90 degrees in the backswing ( or more). At address the humerous is perpendicular to the ground and at the end of the backswing it is 90 degrees away from the ground , parallel to the ground.This is definitely a big lifting movement. (You. may not feel this lift but it occurs and rotation of the chest or hips alone will not achieve this position. If you do not lift the left arm, the backswing will be too short and this will affect the position of the club at the end of the backswing. This has consequences for what happens. during the downswing Many really good golfers elevate the humerous much more than to 90- degree achieving a move of occasionally approaching almost 180 degrees of lift.Many bad golfers. hardly move the humerous at all by bending the left elbow instead of lifting the humerous.
Your explanation of the golf swing is very easy to understand! Best teacher I’ve seen yet. Thank you for helping us out.
I appreciate that!
An oldie, but a goodie! Thanks for sharing!
I was struggling and had hit rock bottom with my golf game. I google searched “how to build my golf swing from scratch” because I was ready to just start over! I found this video and it solved most of my problems (with my irons anyway) Enjoying golf again! Thank you!
Probably the best instructions on utube
Outstanding explanation. Best I've seen in 30+ years of studying & playing this great game
Jonathan, you are hereby awarded an honorary PHD in GSS (Golf Swing Science) for your excellent work in deciphering and presenting how to make the golf swing work for everyone.
He is the best teacher for golf , I think , after my golf expierience of 40years ! I always attempt his teachings of golf swing ,which my swing seems to have had a great improvement. Thanks a lot.
Some people are natural teachers with such an engagingly easy style - Jonathan is one of this rare breed in my opinion. Such great content.
Thank You Jonathan, Great Instruction!
Fantastic instruction Jonathan! One of the best I've seen. But what I liked the most was the person in the background doing 360's when swinging through, from about 13:20 in the video :) Perhaps they should have been watching you instead!
Best golf swing video period! I’ve seen 100 ‘s of golf videos here on RUclips, would give my left nu? for a great golf swing, this is the best explanation I’ve ever heard on how to properly swing a golf club. Thank you Jonathan.
jonathan, this is the simplist and best golf video i've ever seen and i have seen hundreds and read tons of books. this will really help me. thnx steve
simple! rinse and repeat. I don't think other videos are required such is the quality of this instruction.
Who the hell is this dude. I just found him this week. My current schedule doea not permit me to practice everyday like i normally do. So I decided to just work on things with a club when I get home late at night for 6 days. Low and behold I get to the course today. Hit a bucket and athough alot of shots went left, which for me is good. I got on the courae and just stuck with some key movements. The front nine was horrendous. But lile he said, you're goa hit some bad shots. But then I made the turn and didn't abondon thinking in the pratice swinf and then trying to not think in the swing. 1 under thru 15. Yeah. I think I am sticking with Taylor. I love the way he reiterates basics in every episode. So simplistic yet advanced. Where have u been all my life! Thanks i had fun today and u restored that.
No comment you are the Best and easy to understand
U explain everything so well
A very good instructional video. I understand the swing better now and will be referencing back. By the way I am 65 years and 9 months started golf 4 and 1/2 years ago and having swing difficulty.
The best golf swing explanation I have ever seen.
Johnathan, You are the "King of Swing" Thorough integrated and complete, which your videos are, totally beats the unconnected swing snippets scattered all over RUclips, that barely differentiate between deliberate active movements and resulting passive movements. In understanding the sequence and timing your videos are tops. I would still appreciate, however a timeline of all the individual active efforts showing their relative starts and finishes. Any resulting movements could also be separately aligned too.
Thanks,
Schaun
Your wrists, hands and arms have to be active to start the swing and get the club in the air and on plane, as do your legs, hips and shoulders to turn your body. Before the top of the backswing, all of the above have to become passive, using the weight and inertia of the club to lift the arms, complete the turn and with help of gravity start the downswing. As the club starts down there must be an active relaxing of the body encouraging the knees to bend and the turn back to the bodies starting position and beyond. Legs, arms and shoulders become active again when the club reaches P6 accelerating the arms, hands and club through the ball and up around the body. I would say that your arms hands and wrists are also active at this point but there is definitely no conscious guidance. From P 8 everything is passive.
What a lesson!
Best explanation for golf swing
Update!!! Just got back from playing today used all this advice and was flushing it like never before .....people watch this vid over and over . Nuff said !
this guy really knows how to simplify the golf swing bravo
this is your best video yet. it's almost all one needs. glad i found you again. thnx steve
This really all the info youle ever need if you cant get this working you arent going to get much enjoyment from golf
Excellent! When following the 3 easy steps, it's easy to identify my mistakes of swing and learn how to rectify them. However, the key is rhythm and timing to make my solid strike.
Jonathan this is got to be one of the best golf tip videos on RUclips! Very well done. I don't know how anyone hit the dislike button
Johnathan, thanks for these great videos..have you any tips (drills) for getting the feeling of 'maximum speed after the ball'..(Pardon me if you've covered this and I haven't discovered it yet)?
Thank you for your explanation on the swing. Basic but crucial to a quality swing without moving our hips toward the target. Will try this when the snow goes away in the near future.
Jonathan, first of all, I’ve watched a lot your videos and read your pdf. Academically it’s perfect. What I’m missing is a few drills especially around the key part of the move, ie the return to centre, flattening of the swing, turning of the shoulders, etc. I would gladly pay for a lesson showing me how to do this. On my own, I fear I’m still missing something.
Very good explanation by JT. I have read your Swing Simply Philosophy and combined with this tutorial and others then it become perfect!!! I have now getting the swing that I need years ago. Many2 thanks JT for helping golfers by showing the consistent way of golf swing. Cheers
Awsome tips
What a genius you are Sir, my hat off for you. keep up the good work. Where are you located?
Thanks Jonathan! This works amazingly well! I have hit my most powerful and accurate shots using this method. The key for me it to keep my arms soft and tension free.
I needed this reminder. 👍
absolutely the best explanation, so detailed and yet easy to comprehend. thumbs up
Excellent video Jonathan
Great video, purchased the pdf, some reading for tonight! Thank you 👍🏻
Brilliant explanation of the golf swing, in an easy to understand video.
Many thanks, I will be refering back to this video often.
thank you!
Excellent tutorial ! Still struggling with releasing arms from the top and not hitting it fat.
Wonderful tutorial! Thank you!
Great job 👍
Great info,well done.
Thanks for this great explanation of the golf swing
This is another great video, so precisely decribing the crucial parts of the golf swing and also trying to convey the feeling one should have.
A suggestion for an exercise that I think would be very appreciated by many, including myself:
I’ve been stuggeling for quite a long time with over-rotating in the backswing, and I see loads of other golfers doing the same. Instead of stopping the backswing at the correct position, I continue to rotate and while doing that, I lift the left shoulder and head so that the shoulders have a more horizontal position and the spine angle is thus more upright. The club shaft has well passed the horizontal position, pointing downwards. No surprise I struggle to find the way back for the club head into the ball! For some strange reason (muscle memory or something), when I try to reduce the backswing, I loose rythm and timing completely and get all types of mishits including shanks. The brain works its way back to the full (ugly and overrotated) swing continuously! I have spent weeks on the range including recording video of myself for instant feedback, but almost no improvement at all. Any exercise for successful reduction of the backswing would be mostly welcome!!
Best golf video I have ever seen-Thank U so much.
Nicely done Jonathan, thanks for sharing!
One of the best available instructional videos. Do you have a DVD for purchase in English going into even more detail?
Great lesson. Thank you. Dom
Thanks for a great, detailed explanation
Very clear explanation, I am off to the driving range!
Informative video excellent content well done
Excellent
wow!!! what a video!!
I wonder if you have a video with graphics of this "inner circle" of the golf swing..that would also help immensely.
Do u hav anything any training ways to cure overtop swing
Hi Jonathan, I am a bit confused on the synchronisation of hip and arm/hand position. In other words, when the hands have descended to the right thigh area, should the hips turn be maxed out and the legs/arms/hands explode through the ball by extending (as demonstrated in the driver swing video) or should there be more conscious hip rotation at that point. Or maybe the extension of the legs automatically produced more hip turn through the ball?
In the perfect world Dave, your hips should have completed their turn by the time your hands reach your trail thigh.
I have sent you an email with the updated PDF, which describes the sequence better than the old version.
Nice! Do you have any drills to work on for turning from trail leg to impact and follow through?
Drills are coming.
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I good
How do I find Golf Club Shafts plain.
The shafts plane is the angle that it has when it sits on the ground in the address position.
@@JonathanTaylor63 Thanks, my question is, how to find the same shafts plane on the downswing, also when you Pharrell to ground how to find it. that concept is very hard to understand Sir.
Very good re. the UPPER body . However , i kept waiting for what i consider the MOST important part of the golf swing ; the Legs . I would think that teaching how to get the club properly to the top is enough arm instruction . Then a " How To " on getting the legs involved . So this video should have the word " UPPER " between the words " your " and " golf " in the title . In my opinion this video is 1/2 of the golf swing .
Jonathan , if you can teach students on how to initiate the downswing "WITH THE LEGS" , you'll be world famous . A novice watching this , is going to think upper body only . That said ; your efforts is this video are greatly appreciated . And that is sincere . The game is difficult and so is the proper wording in teaching the downswing .
Other than that , there is nothing to this game !
You say you do not lift your left arm but if you look at your swing (and all good golfers) you will see that your upper left arm moves 90 degrees in the backswing ( or more). At address the humerous is perpendicular to the ground and at the end of the backswing it is 90 degrees away from the ground ,
parallel to the ground.This is definitely a big lifting movement. (You. may not feel this lift but it occurs and rotation of the chest or hips alone will not achieve this position. If you do not lift the left arm, the backswing will be too short and this will affect the position of the club at the end of the backswing. This has consequences for what happens. during the downswing
Many really good golfers elevate the humerous much more than to 90- degree achieving a move of occasionally approaching almost 180 degrees of lift.Many bad golfers. hardly move the humerous at all by bending the left elbow instead of lifting the humerous.
amazing video but I'm dying watching the guy in the background showing us everything the golf swing should not be.
3 steps? I'm at step # 147 and I've paused the vid
😂
No such thing as gravity